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The AMS Awards Selection Committee announced the awardees of the first AMS Awards 2008. The AMS award (Acupuncture and Meridian Studies Award) is provided by the Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute (KPI) for excellent research articles submitted to the Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies (JAMS). The title and authors' list of the first AMS Awards are as follows:
•Heo-Jun Award (US $30,000)
–Novel anatomical structures in the brain and spinal cord of rabbit that may belong to the Bonghan system of potential acupuncture meridians
Byung-Cheon Lee, Sungkwang Kim, Kwang-Sup Soh
•Je-Ma Award (US $20,000)
–Changes in electrical skin resistance at Gallbladder 34 (GB34)
Sybille Kramer, Daniela Zaps, Dominik Irnich
•Sa-Am Award (US $10,000)
–A discovery of low hydraulic resistance channel along meridians
Zhang Weibo, Tian Yuying, Li Hong, Tian Jiahe, Luo Mingfu, Xu Faliang, Wang Guangjun, Huang Tao, Xu Yihui, Wang Ruihong
•Young Scientist Awards (US $5,000/article)
–A review of psychosocial predictors of treatment outcomes: what factors might determine the clinical success of acupuncture for pain?
Felicity L. Bishop, George T. Lewith
–Effect of herbal Ephedra sinica and Evodia rutaecarpa on body composition and resting metabolic rate: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial to Korean premenopausal women
Ho-Jun Kim, Jung-Mi Park, Jin-Ah Kim, Byeong-Pyo Ko
–Treatment of mycoplasma wenyonii infection in cows with imidocarb diproprionate injection-acupuncture
Zhengui Yan, Jianzhu Liu, Tiantian Chen, Zhenyong Wang, Ziqiang Cheng, Yong Wang
•Travel Awards (Economy airfare & accommodation/article)
–Vascular responses to manual PC6 acupuncture in nonsmokers and smokers assessed by the second derivative of the finger photo plethys-mogram waveform
José F. Rivas-Vilchis, Ricardo Escorcia-Gaona, Jorge A. Cervantes-Reyes, Rubén Román Ramos
–A neurovascular transmission model for acupuncture induced nitric oxide
Sheng-Hsiung Hsiao, Li-Jen Tsai
–Clinical effectiveness of laser acupuncture: a systematic review
G. David Baxter, Chris Bleakley, Suzanne McDonough
The AMS Awards Selection Committee:
Prof. Kjell Fuxe (Chairperson; Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Prof. In-Chul Sohn (Wonkwang University, Korea)
Prof. Adrian Roger White (Peninsula Medical School, UK)
Prof. Christopher Zaslawski (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
The AMS Awards Nomination Office
Korea Pharmacopuncture Institute
AKOM Building 4F, 26–27, Gayang-dong,
Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Korea
Tel: + 82-2-2658-9051 Fax: + 82-2-2658-9136
E-mail: editorial@journalams.com
The award web site: http://www.amsawards.com
